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31 Jul 2020, 4:00 am by Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
In a very short decision written by Justice Karakatsanis, the Supreme Court endorsed the Canadian Judicial Council’s (CJC) Statement of Principles on Self-Represented Litigants and Accused Persons.[1] The Canadian Judicial Council’s statement on self-represented litigants sought to articulate proactive guidelines respecting judges’ responsibilities when hearing cases involving self-represented litigants. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
His firm pulled in $240,000 in less than three months for lobbying the Trump administration on coronavirus aid on behalf of three New Jersey hospital systems and a Tennessee-based chain of addiction treatment centers. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 11:01 pm by Michael Froomkin
Florida’s system uses appointment plus retention elections for Supreme Court Justices and District Court of Appeal Judges, but not for trial courts. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 10:00 pm by Shannon O'Hare
The Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court exercise the highest judicial power within the hierarchy of courts. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 2:55 pm by Kit Walsh
It’s a terrible, unconstitutional law, which is why EFF is challenging it in court. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 2:42 pm by Rachel Casper
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services made two announcements related to recognition for pro bono work in a press release on July 23, 2020. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 1:25 pm by Cory Doctorow
Notice and Takedown: A system allowing anyone purporting to be a copyright holder to have material swiftly removed from the Internet, without any judicial oversight or even presentation of evidence. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 6:01 am by Michael Froomkin
Pearson says she is committed to ending the direct filing of juveniles into the adult court system. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 9:05 pm by Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
” Over the past two years, the Supreme Court has identified and applied an approach to judicial review of government actions that is well-tailored to these challenging political circumstances. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 5:04 pm by Josh Blackman
Kavanaugh's idea—presented to the justices in an internal memo and conversations, sources said—would have had the high court avoid the subpoena fight over Trump financial documents, based on the judicial principle that courts should stay out of cases involving fundamentally political questions. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 4:40 pm by Adam Bartolanzo and John Chierichella
  By implementing a judicially created timeliness rule for pre-award protests based on patent errors in a solicitation, the majority had, in Judge Reyna’s opinion, overridden the COFC’s statute of limitations based on “policy concerns” – a result Judge Reyna believed was precluded by the Supreme Court’s holding in SCA Hygiene. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 4:16 pm by Michel-Adrien
""The findings of this study were quite impressive: the length of decisions in Québec’s lower courts increased by about 40% and in the appellate court by 20%. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 2:00 pm by Elizabeth Howell
Despite the separation of powers doctrine, which places the exclusive authority to prescribe rules of practice and procedure for the courts with the Judicial Branch, legislation that infringes to some extent upon the function of the judiciary is often upheld where it is not inconsistent with the Court’s rules. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by ernst
Second, it examines the anti-subordination agenda of the Reconstruction Congress, which abolished involuntary servitude and engaged in structuring a free labor system—a republican system of labor—to replace the slave labor system and to bring the freedmen into parity with their former masters. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 6:09 am by Nelson Tebbe
Imagine that Philadelphia did not contract with private agencies, but operated its foster care system directly and exclusively. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 3:29 pm
 Let us convert the dissatisfaction we have...and turn it into an opportunity to change, to grow, to improve the judicial system. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 2:15 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
The purpose of the Eleventh Amendment is to shield a State’s sovereign functions of governance from judicial oversight in federal courts. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 2:00 pm by Eugene Volokh
Your consequential decision will afford you the most torture you will ever endure. scalia was the biggest asshole in the judicial system ever. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 9:21 am by familoo
In his book The Modern Judge, Sir Mark Hedley (retired High Court Judge (Family Division), says Our system…is so constructed that fallible judges hear and consider evidence often given by very fallible witnesses. [read post]